Best Icing for Sugar Cookies...?!
Answers: This weekend my mother and I tried making sugar cookies with royal icing...what a disaster! Working with royal icing is the worst it ruined everything. Anyways I want to make sugar cookies again for Christmas BUT I dont know what kind of icing to use...does anyone have any suggestions or good recipes for icing...and please keep in mind I would like to put them in a tin...so some kind of icing that wont spread on to other cookies when I stack them.
My kids and I just buy vanilla frosting in a can like betty crocker or whatever and then dye it different colors and frost them up. Simple and tastes great!
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google it or metacrawler just type in sugar cookie icing recipies
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I'd try the christmas colored sugar sprinkles. When you stack it, some of it will just fall to the bottom, not be all messy. Plus, it won't take away from the fact that they are sugar cookies(they're delicious!).
Happy baking!
1 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
food coloring
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1. Stir the powdered sugar and the milk until smooth.
2. Beat in corn syrup and vanilla until icing is smooth and glossy.
3. If it's too thick, add more corn syrup.
4. Divide icing into separate bowls and stir in food coloring as desired.
5. You can dip the cookies, paint them with a paint brush or spread them using a knife or the back of a spoon.
Last year I made sugar cookies using Alton Brown's recipe (recipe link below) - they were delicious and I used his recipe for royal icing which was equally delicious and easy. Once you've put the icing on you do need to lay out the cookies and allow the royal icing to dry, this takes about 30 minutes at most. Once it's dry, they can be stacked without the worry of transferring icing to other cookies...mine turned out beautifully.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/... (the recipe for his royal icing is below this recipe). Good luck and bon appetite!
I use buttercream frosting and decorate it with a frosting tip and decorative sugars. i get loads of reviews on this.
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup shortening
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
5 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup milk
DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, cream margarine and shortening until light and fluffy. Add salt, vanilla, confectioners' sugar and milk. Beat well
oh shute I didn't read further I usually put on trays sorry. whelp this is how I make them If you want to try.